Blue Monday

Monday 21st January 2008 – Blue Monday Dave Ramsay, Richard Bendall. Jim Stevenson, Emma Martindale. Notwithstanding the horrendous weather, flood after flood after flood on the A65, it just happened to be Blue Monday. A doubtful team met at Inglesport café for 10am with the rain continuing to fall. Jim announced he was just there for a coffee before driving to Sleets Gill to witness the torrent no doubt gushing out and away down the hill. 12 noon came and … Read More

Plan was to cap open entrance more as last time we left it a bit of a thrutch. Had everythiung to hand except firing pin so job scuppered. Couple of hours therefore spent moving boulders and mud, hammering calcite in an effort to reduce the slope of the debris cone obscuring the hopedfor continuing rift. Surprisingly, we got an outward blowing draft through a fist sized hole hinting that indeed there was a rift to be chased.

Friday 22nd February 2008 Richard Mercer, Richard Bendall. Return to sort out entrance. 4 holes suitably placed opened up the top part of the entrance and decission to leave the lower bedding in place to aid free climb out. If you can’t get through this bit you won’t get through the next squeeze! Plenty of battery power remaining so on into Blue Monday Chamber and 6 holes saw off the large offending boulders in the debris slope allowing more hammering … Read More

More visits, more holes, hundreds of caps. Mearly tokens of our affections. The courting is over as she begins to open up. Such persuasion.